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re: Stupid Things Your Teacher Said That Aren't True

Posted on 1/19/17 at 3:27 pm to
Posted by King George
Member since Dec 2013
6079 posts
Posted on 1/19/17 at 3:27 pm to
quote:

$0.1that doubled every day for a month
Your teacher was right. If you double a penny every day for 30 days you end up with $.31 (assuming you use the same penny every day).

What your chart shows is compounding the sum for 30 days.
Posted by Tiger1242
Member since Jul 2011
33188 posts
Posted on 1/19/17 at 3:58 pm to
I feel like you just tried to sound smart but sound dumb or ignorant. Pretty clear what he meant dude
Posted by RocketPower13
Member since Jan 2017
2563 posts
Posted on 1/20/17 at 1:00 am to
Had a teacher tell me that Buffalo wings were from actual buffaloes. That it was an underdeveloped bone structure on buffaloes. I was very young so believed her and went home and my older siblings told me how stupid I was. (I got smarter, fwiw had a full academic ride for college)

Different kind of stupid but I had a middle school teacher tell my parents she "cried herself to sleep every night because of me and my shenanigans." I wasnt that bad to begin with but don't teach teenagers if you can't deal with teenagers. That comment is just stupid to me.
Posted by Spock's Eyebrow
Member since May 2012
12300 posts
Posted on 1/20/17 at 1:06 am to
quote:

Your teacher was right. If you double a penny every day for 30 days you end up with $.31 (assuming you use the same penny every day).


That would be a weird and wrong interpretation.

quote:

What your chart shows is compounding the sum for 30 days.


There is no "sum". It's an exponential, 2 ^ 30, which if you've ever written code, you should instantly know is a little more than 1 billion.
Posted by Kcrad
Diamondhead
Member since Nov 2010
66917 posts
Posted on 1/20/17 at 1:41 am to
Not exactly on topic. I took a 400 level course taught by Stephen Ambrose at UNO.

We had to buy 5 books, all written by him. Come on, man.

But he did bring in this man for a week long lecture. Hans von Luck

He said 3 weeks before the attack on Moscow his Recon unit was 5 miles from Moscow and he could see the Kremlin.

He was a Hauptmann (Captain) at the time and he begged the Generals to attack now. They refused, because Hitler set the date of the attack and would not change his mind.

He told the class in no uncertain terms, if the Central Army would've attacked at that time Moscow was their's and the Soviet counter-attack would've been destroyed to the man.

Also, von Luck said the Soviet troops used in the counter-attack were green Oriental troops, that would've been mowed down like Schafe.


































This post was edited on 1/20/17 at 1:57 am
Posted by Kcrad
Diamondhead
Member since Nov 2010
66917 posts
Posted on 1/20/17 at 2:00 am to
Peggy Vath (Not her real name) said she would frick my brains out. Not true, my brains are still intact and remain in my skull.
Posted by RocketPower13
Member since Jan 2017
2563 posts
Posted on 1/20/17 at 2:01 am to
Did he also explain that statue of limitations had expired and that's why he was telling you all this?
Posted by Kcrad
Diamondhead
Member since Nov 2010
66917 posts
Posted on 1/20/17 at 2:05 am to
Lol. definitely a she. She also had her pic in a 1980 Hustler Beaver Hunt.

Rumor has it I took the pic. I'll work some google-fu and see what I come up with.

Found her fine, out of the statue of limitations arse.

Reason for edit; don't want Fred or Rummy to ban my dumb arse.


She's the one on the right.



































This post was edited on 1/20/17 at 2:15 am
Posted by RocketPower13
Member since Jan 2017
2563 posts
Posted on 1/20/17 at 3:31 am to
No pic is posted
Posted by Kcrad
Diamondhead
Member since Nov 2010
66917 posts
Posted on 1/20/17 at 5:24 am to
I will leave this pic for 25 minutes. To not get banned and/or sued.

Rummy and Fred have mercy.

She's the one on the right.

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